I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.